Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life

Completed

• Conditions: Children; Quality of Life
• Interventions: Other: quality of life evaluation

• Registration Number: NCT02553486
• Lead Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital

Brief Summary

This study evaluates the global quality of life of foreign born adopted children, one to seven years following their arrival in France. Investigators will assess global health, behavior, school integration for each child who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, through an online anonymous survey. Investigators, then, will identify variables associated with a lower quality of life in order to improve the support offered to the children.

Detailed Description

Investigators will use a known and official quality of life score: the PedsQL®. This score has never been used in this population so investigators will first have to test its internal validity, so that investigators cannot use it in their global evaluation. The second stage will consist of identifying variables associated with a lower quality of life, as previously determined. Investigators will send letters to each family through the adoption department of each area enrolled in our study, to ensure data. Parents and children will be required to login to a safe, anonymous, controlled website in order to input their data. The data will be recorded on the internal server of Nantes University Hospital. This study has been accepted by both the Computing and Liberties Commission (CNIL) and Nantes University Hospital's Ethics group in the field of Health (GNEDS) comities.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-09
• Study First Submitted: 2015-09-15
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-09-16
• Study First Posted: 2015-09-17
• Primary Completion: 2016-03
• Study Completion: 2016-03
• Status Verified: 2016-05
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-05-04
• Last Update Posted: 2016-05-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 756

Inclusion Criteria

• All international adopted children, who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, living in four French districts (Loire-Atlantique, Ille et vilaine, Maine et Loire and Finistère) and accepting to fill the on-line questionnaire of the study

Exclusion Criteria

• Children born in France.
• Children or adoptive parents refusing to participate.

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Internationally adopted children	quality of life evaluation	All internationally adopted children, who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, living in four French districts

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
International adopted children global quality of life evaluation	up to 9 months	Global international adopted children quality of life score one to seven years after arrival in France, using a quality of life score : PedsQL®.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Identification of Quality of life low score risk factors	up to 9 months	Validation of the questionnaire in our population; Highlight the determiners of a bad quality of life (after dichotomization of the population, investigators will compare participants who have a score under one standard deviation to those who have a better score).